Web Special: “Inside China’s experiment to find friends for 230 million old people” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GerHcmvGM4E
Web Special: “The God Pill: Silicon Valley’s Quest for Eternal Life,” https://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/31/google-co-founders-and-silicon-valley-billionaires-try-to-live-forever.html
Life Expectancy Calculator https://www.livingto100.com/calculator
Chances of a 20 year old reaching various ages. Source: Business Insider/Andy Kiersz, data from Social Security Administration. This Is When You’re Going To Die, Andy Kiersz, 2014, Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/social-security-life-table-charts-2014-3
Global Agewatch Index https://www.helpage.org/global-agewatch/ns
HelpAge 2018 Insights https://www.helpage.org/global-agewatch/about/global-agewatch-index-version-20/
Global Action Plan on Ageing and Health https://www.who.int/ageing/WHO-GSAP-2017.pdf?ua=1.
Creative Aging https://www.lifetimearts.org/creative-aging/
Web Special: The Best of “85 and Up”: Life Lessons From the Oldest Old. By John Leland, Jan. 4, 2019 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/04/nyregion/the-best-of-85-and-up-life-lessons-from-nyc-elders.html
Generation Project BBC https://www.bbc.com/capital/generation-project
Elderhood Rising https://youtu.be/ijbgcX3vIWs
Global Aging Initiative https://www.csis.org/programs/former-programs/global-aging-initiative#:~:text=The%20Global%20Aging%20Initiative%20(GAI,States%20and%20around%20the%20world.
HelpAge https://www.helpage.org/
Gerontechnology https://www.gerontechnology.org/
Elders Action Network https://eldersaction.org/
Web Special: Anthropology Resources to follow: https://www.culturalcontextofaging.com/anthroresources
Aging as a Human Condition https://projects.au.dk/thegoodoldlife/
ASSA – The Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing https://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/assa/
ASSA Blog https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/assa/
Aging 2.0 https://www.aging2.com/
Agewell Global https://healthmarketinnovations.org/program/agewell-global
Cohousing Movement https://www.cohousing.org/
Global Gerontology as Frog Candy https://culturalcontextofaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Frog-Candy-Blog.Whittington-PDF.pdf
Anthropology Resources to follow: https://www.culturalcontextofaging.com/anthroresources
Annual Guide to Key Resources in Aging and Life Course Research and Teaching: Published by the Interest Group on Aging and the Life Course. It includes key books, organizations and web resources: Click for Guide
Added Value: Teaching Resource. HRAF Culture and Aging: A Research Project: https://hraf.yale.edu/teach-ehraf/culture-and-aging-a-research-project-in-completed-fertility-subsistence-practices-productivity-aging-and-social-networks-aging/
Added Value: Ageism: A “Prevalent and Insidious” Health Threat By Paula Span, New York Times, April 26th The World Health Organization has begun four studies intended to define ageism and identify ways to combat it. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/26/health/ageism-elderly-health.html?action=click&module=Discovery&pgtype=Homepage&fbclid=IwAR3ZBOutOdL7jjoAkHKai8rPaqHl8ThHbg6sywVRokZsvPIzD9prMqW_yXU
Added Value: AARP Policy Blog: https://blog.aarp.org/category/thinking-policy/#
Added Value: Designing Spaces That Work For a Multigenerational Workforce. Malburg, M. 2018. https://www.progressiveae.com/creating-multigenerational-spaces/
Added Value: Special Issue: Aging in Context. The Gerontologist. Volume 58, Issue 1, February 2018 https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/issue/58/1
Added Value: The Art of Alzheimers Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/TheArtOfAlzheimers/
SPECIAL RESOURCES: COVID-19 AND THE LIFE COURSE
Added Value: The Age of COVID-19 series A new AAGE Blog https://anthropologyandgerontology.com/aage-news/the-age-of-covid-19/
Added Value: Generations United COVID-19 resources: https://www.gu.org/covid-19/
Added Value: Will COVID-19 Make the Decline Narrative of Aging Worse? What experts in aging think the future holds for boomer bashing By Richard Eisenberg Money & Work Editor May 8, 2020, https://www.nextavenue.org/covid-19-decline-narrative-of-aging/
Added Value: Aalyia Feroz Ali Sadruddin and Marcia C. Inhorn. 2020. Aging, Vulnerability, and Questions of Care in the Time of COVID-19.Anthropology Now. 12:1 https://anthronow.com/press-watch/aging-vulnerability-and-questions-of-care-in-the-time-of-covid-19
Added Value: “COVID-19 in the Blue Zone: What”s Helping Elders in Sardinia, Italy” https://www.nextavenue.org/covid-19-blue-zone-sardinia/